[Noisebridge-discuss] Letter to MakerBot?

[Elijah Post]

I did the exact same search and saw that there was no MakerBot trade mark,
I get it.

But go to the MakerBot website. What do you see? It has a (tm) everywhere
after it says replicator. That kind of ticks me off.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Leif Ryge <leif at synthesize.us> wrote:

> On 01/10/2012 03:54 PM, Martin Bogomolni wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Elijah Post<elijahpost at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> I feel that because MakerBot has a great deal of press, and also
> >> is  putting a "TM" symbol after every single time the word 'replicator'
> >> appears,  that we at least owe them a letter.
> >> [...]
> >
> >A search of TESS (Trademark search on the PTO website) does not show
> > any marks registered to MakerBot Industries for "Replicator"  Right
> > now they have the following registered trademarks:
> >[...]
> > So, as far as these things go .. They don't yet have the (tm) to go
> > with their Replicator mark.
>
> The superscript tm (™) symbol is for unregistered trademarks. Registered
> trademarks are designated by an R in a circle (®).
> cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark
>
> ~leif
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*Elijah Louis Spenser Post
Mechanic (San Francisco Bike Kitchen)*
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